New research reveals that numbers in our visual field can subtly distort how we judge spatial positions, showing that perception is shaped by both numerical magnitude and object-based processing.

The response properties of neurons in primary sensory cortices remain malleable throughout life. The existence of such plasticity, and the characteristics of a form of implicit learning known as ...

One experiment included number marking and number naming tasks to measure abilities to transform abstract numbers into spatial representations on a direct line, similar to a VAS. The second, called a ...